Mastering Julia: Develop your analytical and programming skills further in Julia to solve complex data processing problems - Softcover

Malcolm Sherrington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783553316 ISBN 13: 9781783553310

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

This hands-on guide is aimed at practitioners in the area of data science. The book assumes some previous skills with Julia and in coding in a scripting language such as Python, Matlab, or R-or otherwise in a compiled language such as C, Fortran, or Java. Experience in specific study areas such as database, networking, statistics, and mathematics is not required.

About this title

Product Description

This hands-on guide is aimed at practitioners of data science. The book assumes some previous skills with Julia and skills in coding in a scripting language such as Python or R, or a compiled language such as C or Java.

About the Author

Malcolm Sherrington

Malcolm Sherrington has been working in computing for over 35 years. He holds degrees in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering and has given lectures at two different universities in the UK as well as worked in the aerospace and healthcare industries. Currently, he is running his own company in the finance sector, with specific interests in High Performance Computing and applications of GPUs and parallelism. Always hands-on, Malcolm started programming scientific problems in Fortran and C, progressing through Ada and Common Lisp, and recently became involved with data processing and analytics in Perl, Python, and R. Malcolm is the organizer of the London Julia User Group. In addition, he is a co-organizer of the UK High Performance Computing and the financial engineers and Quant London meetup groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783553316
• ISBN 13: 9781783553310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390